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Archive for March 12th, 2017

Companies with old-fashioned pension plans increasingly are offloading the responsibility for them, along with accumulated assets backing the plans, to insurance companies. It’s part of a little-known but growing business called pension-risk transfer.

<p>There's no question that Netflix is currently the king of the over-the-top streaming-video providers, with a service that reaches more than 80 million users in over 200 countries, and hit shows that drive millions of those users to binge-watch entire seasons in a matter of days.</p>

<p>Cannabis businesses are hiring new workers, leasing new space and pushing across state borders. And regulators are drafting rules that will give access to legal recreational pot to tens of millions of adults.</p>

<p>Dana Kayali is preparing for battle. Clutching a stack of home ads, the pension fund manager and her fiancee brave a swarm of about 30 people on a recent Saturday and step into the first of four open houses of the day. They’re all searching for what’s dawning on Kayali is a fantasy: a home in downtown Toronto for under C$1 million.</p>